Descriptons in Event viewer missing ...

[clickmedia]

Hi,

In my event viewer, some descriptions are not found for some event ID's. It looks like this :

Event Type: Information
Event Source: IAS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5050
Date: 3-7-2008
Time: 9:40:22
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 5050 ) in Source ( IAS ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: SERVER.DOMAIN.local; DOMAIN.

Can someone explain to me what is causing this ? Am I missing files containing these descriptions, or is there something else going on ?

I've tried the /AUXSOURCE but this doesn't help at all.
Thanks

Erwin

 

[ShackDaddy]

Well, the event type is informational, not warning or error, so that should guide your concern level. It's also IAS-related, so it has to do with remote access, so it could be something like the RAS service being ready to authenticate VPN users or something like that. I typically ignore these messages when they come up.

Normally this sort of error comes up when one server gets an alert related to a technology that's not actually installed on it, and the /AUX switch is used to ask another server for the event details. In the context of SBS, all I can assume is that a stripped-down form of IAS was installed that didn't include some of the informational event details. And since this is built to be a single-server environment, the /AUX switch is irrelevant.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[clickmedia]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply !

This will certainly reduce my concern level, however I hope it will also reduce at my client...

Regards,
Erwin

 

[ShackDaddy]

Here's the actual event message that is missing:

IAS 5050 Event:
A LDAP connection with domain controller <domain controller name> for domain <domain name> is established.

Microsoft screwed it up so that you couldn't read the message, but it's nothing of consequence...

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting

 

[clickmedia]

Im just curious...how did you found out what the message was ? I read somewhere on the internet that the messages are read from a DLL file and that there is a reg key that points to this file.

Thanks

Erwin

 

[ShackDaddy]

I just went to eventid.net and looked up an IAS 5050 event, that's all. Nothing complicated.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting